Plasmonic, photonic, or hybrid? Reviewing waveguide geometries for electro-optic modulators

A Messner, D Moor, D Chelladurai, R Svoboda… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are key elements in high-speed optical telecommunication links
and preferably rely on materials with a linear electro-optic effect. Choosing adequate …

Silver-based plasmonics: golden material platform and application challenges

AS Baburin, AM Merzlikin, AV Baryshev… - Optical Materials …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A novel material platform based on metallic thin films with ultra-low losses in the visible and
near-IR range is crucial for rapid development of a wide range of new generation plasmonic …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Giant nonlinear response at a plasmonic nanofocus drives efficient four-wave mixing

MP Nielsen, X Shi, P Dichtl, SA Maier, RF Oulton - Science, 2017 - science.org
Efficient optical frequency mixing typically must accumulate over large interaction lengths
because nonlinear responses in natural materials are inherently weak. This limits the …

Emission enhancement of erbium in a reverse nanofocusing waveguide

NA Güsken, M Fu, M Zapf, MP Nielsen, P Dichtl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Since Purcell's seminal report 75 years ago, electromagnetic resonators have been used to
control light-matter interactions to make brighter radiation sources and unleash …

Three-dimensional integration of black phosphorus photodetector with silicon photonics and nanoplasmonics

C Chen, N Youngblood, R Peng, D Yoo, DA Mohr… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the integration of a black phosphorus photodetector in a hybrid, three-
dimensional architecture of silicon photonics and metallic nanoplasmonics structures. This …

Compact graphene plasmonic slot photodetector on silicon-on-insulator with high responsivity

Z Ma, K Kikunaga, H Wang, S Sun, R Amin… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Graphene has extraordinary electro-optic properties and is therefore a promising candidate
for monolithic photonic devices such as photodetectors. However, the integration of this …

Strongly coupled systems for nonlinear optics

F Ge, X Han, J Xu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Strong coupling is a distinct light–matter interaction regime, in which the interaction is
manifested in coherent oscillations of energy between matter and a photonic subsystem …

[PDF][PDF] Nonlinear frequency conversion in optical nanoantennas and metasurfaces: materials evolution and fabrication

M Rahmani, G Leo, I Brener, AV Zayats… - Opto-Electronic …, 2018 - researching.cn
Nonlinear frequency conversion is one of the most fundamental processes in nonlinear
optics. It has a wide range of applications in our daily lives, including novel light sources …

Two-dimensional material-based mode confinement engineering in electro-optic modulators

Z Ma, MH Tahersima, S Khan… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to modulate light using 2-dimensional (2D) materials is fundamentally challenged
by their small optical cross-section leading to miniscule modal confinements in diffraction …